Yesterday I joined Graham Richardson on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the politics around the COVID vaccine…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed how the view of Canada’s pandemic response…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed how the view of Canada’s pandemic response…
A recent newsletter from Fair Vote Canada reminded us that the Liberals have been promising proportional representation (PR) for 100 years. And not delivering. In 2021 we celebrate, if that’s…
Feb. 7, 2021 – emailed the Premier and my MLA. Dear Premier Moe: It’s no secret that your weak response to the pandemic has given us Canada’s most shameful second…
In the unlikely event that there is someone outside of Edmonton reading this blog (except for you, Bill) a gentle suggestion: stop reading now. This is for Edmonton eyes only.…
Art will be one of the greatest casualties of the global response to Covid. So many great works will disappear from public halls and be shuffled into the basements of…
With the facts in front of us — with even further evidence that corporations overwhelmingly produce the majority of our global greenhouse gas emissions — it’s clear that responsibility for…
I’ve long thought that the sensible approach to the global economy is obvious, if complex. We calculate what the Earth can sustainably provide in terms of natural resources, then we…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for a rare Thursdays mini-“Political Heat” panel. We talked about the news of Canada…
Yoga is now practiced by champion boxers, football players such as the Miami Dolphins, and celebrity musicians such as Sting. Yoga is now being practiced by people as…
With everything that’s going on around, with COVID, with vaccine delivery problems, with job losses and pain all over the place, it’s easy to get lost in the bad. It’s…
As a fan of the Mound of Sound, who writes a progressive blog as the disaffected liberal, I have been slow in congratulating him on the excellent update of his…
The CLAWs are getting a free pass when it comes to ‘lockdown’ regulations. Why? Other updates: another call for a publicly-owned Made in Canada vaccine solution.
Stop, go, yes, no! NDP Cabinet Minister Murray Rankin wants to be on both sides of a vital issue. He congratulates University of Victoria students for partial success after an…
Scott Moe says he thinks Saskatchewan can do this. What is this? It’s BS. He thinks we’ll buy his BS. And he’s probably right that at lesst half of the…
Yesterday I joined Graham Richardson on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about how the delays in COVID vaccine…
Back in the long ago year of 1997, Bruce Springsteen released a song called “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)”. I always thought this was an odd song choice for Springsteen;…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Will Stewart. We discussed the new international travel restrictions around COVID-19,…
The Hollow Men Encounter The Spirit of Capitalism
And We Recoil In Horror Before The Reality Is Anything More Than A flickering and Fleeting Perception, Which Can Be Easily Denied, and Swept Aside “We are the hollow men,…